Weather is a system-integrated forecasting app for Apple and Pixel devices, providing real-time conditions, radar maps, and severe weather alerts.
Product velocity
Maintenance
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Weather
Sentiment
4.8
1.7M reviews
Nemesis
The Weather Channel - Radar
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Weather for low-friction, ad-free access to atmospheric data that syncs across their hardware, removing the need for third-party ad-supported alternatives.
For Users of Apple and Google Pixel hardware seeking integrated, system-native weather tracking.
What does it look like?
Key features
Visualizations of precipitation intensity and wind patterns for the next 12 to 24 hours.
Push notifications for adverse conditions including hurricanes, tornadoes, and flash floods.
iCloud-based synchronization of favorite locations across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility with no IAP or ad-supported revenue, functioning as a platform-specific retention tool.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentUX improvementsnew contentShow more...
The app currently ships at a maintenance cadence of approximately 0.09 releases per week. While the latest version provided substantial updates including Material 3 design and AI-driven weather summaries, the long gap between releases indicates a lack of consistent development momentum. There is no evidence of a live-ops strategy or frequent iterative updates. Development appears focused on periodic feature drops rather than continuous delivery.
Who built it?
Jatisari Inovasi Studio
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What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate radar map visualization provides helpful weather tracking for outdoor activities and travel planning, but report inaccurate weather forecasting and temperature reporting lead to significant user distrust post-update.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Radar map visualization provides helpful weather tracking for outdoor activities and travel planning
- Inaccurate weather forecasting and temperature reporting lead to significant user distrust post-update
100 of 198 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Weather
How's the Weather market?
Weather maintains a high rating of 4.81 on iOS with over 1.6 million reviews, yet the Android variant struggles with a 2.51 rating across 14,251 reviews. This performance gap signals that the app's core utility is failing to translate across platforms.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By The Weather Channel Interactive
With over 5 million ratings and a massive, active user base, this app represents the industry standard for comprehensive weather data and radar visualization.
- Provides hyper-local, street-level radar tracking that exceeds this app's broader regional mapping capabilities.
- Integrates extensive health and wellness weather indices like flu, allergy, and UV tracking for proactive user planning.
- Maintains a high-frequency release cadence of 5 updates in six months to ensure platform stability and feature parity.
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Key takeaways for Weather
Where is it heading?
Users report: The weather utility market is consolidating around apps that provide hyper-local, transparent data, leaving Weather exposed due to its recent performance regressions. Unless the team addresses the Android stability and data-source transparency, the app will continue to lose its power-user base to more reliable, feature-rich competitors.
- Frequent data-loading failures in the latest release lead to forced restarts, which erodes the daily habit and drives negative sentiment.
- Forecast inaccuracies post-update trigger user distrust, causing a migration of power users to more granular, data-dense competitors like WeatherBug.
The SWOT
- System-level integration across Apple hardware ecosystem
- Ad-free interface maintains high user trust
- Widget-based engagement sustains daily active usage
- Integrate third-party data source toggles to restore trust
- Expand severe weather alerts to include lightning proximity
- Leverage B2B partnerships for localized health indices
Next best moves
Rebuild Android data-loading logic because loading failures are the #2 complaint theme → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's minimalist design is its greatest vulnerability: by stripping away data density…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Real-time lightning detection (available in WeatherBug but absent here) +2
Since the last report: The app introduced new design and AI features but suffered a decline in user trust and stability, particularly on Android, following the latest update.
Bottom line
Weather holds its category lead through native integration but bleeds users to data-dense rivals due to recent accuracy regressions, so revenue-neutral growth hinges on stabilizing the Android data-loading pipeline.
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